= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
Recent Posts
[Link] How Feasible Is the Rapid Development of Artificial Superintelligence?
by Kaj_Sotala | 1v (0c)Open thread, Oct. 24 - Oct. 30, 2016
by MrMind | 1v (0c)[Link] Farm in a Box, permaculte package
by morganism | -2v (0c)Internal Race Conditions
by SquirrelInHell | 1v (3c)What's the most annoying part of your life/job?
by Liron | 5v (17c)[Link] Trying to make politics less irrational by cognitive bias-checking the US presidential debates
by Gleb_Tsipursky | -2v (1c)New LW Meetup: Zurich
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)[Link] The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence officially launches.
by ignoranceprior | 1v (0c)A problem in anthropics with implications for the soundness of the simulation argument.
by philosophytorres | 5v (13c)[Link] AI-ON is an open community dedicated to advancing Artificial Intelligence
by morganism | 3v (10c)[Link] The Non-identity Problem - Another argument in favour of classical utilitarianism
by casebash | 2v (1c)Open thread, Oct. 17 - Oct. 23, 2016
by MrMind | 3v (65c)Astrobiology IV: Photosynthesis and energy
by CellBioGuy | 8v (6c)[Link] There are 125 sheep and 5 dogs in a flock. How old is the shepherd? / Math Education
by James_Miller | 6v (12c)Map and Territory: a new rationalist group blog
by gworley | 8v (2c)[Link] Reducing Risks of Astronomical Suffering (S-Risks): A Neglected Global Priority
by ignoranceprior | 6v (4c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)The map of agents which may create x-risks
by turchin | 2v (2c)[Link] An attempt in layman's language to explain the metaethics sequence in a single post.
by Bound_up | 1v (60c)MIRI AMA plus updates
by RobbBB | 11v (0c)[Recommendation] Steven Universe & cryonics
by tadrinth | 8v (1c)Open thread, Oct. 10 - Oct. 16, 2016
by MrMind | 3v (122c)[Link] Biofuels a climate mistake
by morganism | 4v (3c)[Link] Quantum Bayesianism
by morganism | 0v (32c)[Link] Six principles of a truth-friendly discourse
by philh | 4v (3c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)The University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is hiring!
by crmflynn | 6v (0c)Astrobiology III: Why Earth?
by CellBioGuy | 17v (12c)Open thread, Oct. 03 - Oct. 09, 2016
by MrMind | 4v (175c)Cryo with magnetics added
by morganism | 5v (11c)October 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 5v (19c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Risk Contracts: A Crackpot Idea to Save the World
by SquirrelInHell | -2v (35c)[Link] US tech giants found Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society to ensure AI is developed safely and ethically
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 4v (0c)[Link] Sam Harris - TED Talk on AI
by Brillyant | 6v (0c)[Link] Figureheads, ghost-writers and pseudonymous quant bloggers: the recent evolution of authorship in science publishing
by Gram_Stone | 2v (0c)[Link] Politics Is Upstream of AI
by iceman | 4v (5c)[Link] Street Epistemology Examples: How to Talk to People So They Change Their Minds
by Bound_up | 2v (4c)[Link] SSC: It's Bayes All The Way Up
by Houshalter | 2v (1c)[Link] Putanumonit - Convincing people to read the Sequences and wondering about "postrationalists"
by Jacobian | 10v (1c)Linkposts now live!
by Vaniver | 26v (20c)A Child's Petrov Day Speech
by James_Miller | 15v (0c)New Philosophical Work on Solomonoff Induction
by vallinder | 2v (11c)We have the technology required to build 3D body scanners for consumer prices
by ChristianKl | 2v (13c)Open thread, Sep. 26 - Oct. 02, 2016
by MrMind | 2v (90c)The map of natural global catastrophic risks
by turchin | 3v (0c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Against Amazement
by SquirrelInHell | 5v (6c)Seven Apocalypses
by scarcegreengrass | 2v (16c)A Weird Trick To Manage Your Identity
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 2v (14c)Open thread, Sep. 19 - Sep. 25, 2016
by DataPacRat | 2v (92c)Article on IQ: The Inappropriately Excluded
by buybuydandavis | 4v (25c)CrowdAnki comprehensive JSON representation of Anki Decks to facilitate collaboration
by harcisis | 7v (2c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)The Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) seeks a media engagement volunteer/intern
by crmflynn | 5v (2c)Learning values versus learning knowledge
by Stuart_Armstrong | 5v (17c)Neutralizing Physical Annoyances
by SquirrelInHell | 12v (7c)Open thread, Sep. 12 - Sep. 18, 2016
by MrMind | 1v (110c)The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe
by morganism | 1v (21c)2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Analysis: Part Four (Politics, Calibration & Probability, Futurology, Charity & Effective Altruism)
by ingres | 10v (27c)Brain Speed Test
by Nanashi | -1v (2c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Jocko Podcast
by moridinamael | 9v (12c)Stupid Questions September 2016
by pepe_prime | 3v (33c)Open Thread, Sept 5. - Sept 11. 2016
by Elo | 6v (102c)Not all theories of consciousness are created equal: a reply to Robert Lawrence Kuhn's recent article in Skeptic Magazine [Link]
by oge | 3v (17c)Why we may elect our new AI overlords
by Deku-shrub | 2v (3c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Rationality Quotes September 2016
by bbleeker | 1v (8c)September 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 3v (30c)Causal graphs and counterfactuals
by Stuart_Armstrong | 3v (2c)UC Berkeley launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
by ignoranceprior | 10v (1c)Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016
by Elo | 6v (119c)Risks from Approximate Value Learning
by capybaralet | 1v (10c)Recent updates to gwern.net (2015-2016)
by gwern | 28v (5c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Inefficient Games
by capybaralet | 14v (13c)The map of the risks of aliens
by turchin | 6v (21c)Open Thread, Aug. 22 - 28, 2016
by polymathwannabe | 3v (67c)Willpower Schedule
by SquirrelInHell | 4v (6c)DARPA accepting proposals for explainable AI
by morganism | 6v (0c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Deepmind Plans for Rat-Level AI
by moridinamael | 20v (9c)The Future of Humanity Institute is hiring!
by crmflynn | 13v (0c)Superintelligence via whole brain emulation
by AlexMennen | 8v (27c)Willpower Thermodynamics
by Fluttershy | 5v (5c)Seeking Optimization of New Website "New Atheist Survival Kit," a go-to site for newly-made atheists
by Bound_up | 4v (11c)European Soylent alternatives
by ChristianKl | 10v (13c)Identity map
by turchin | 5v (41c)Open Thread, Aug. 15. - Aug 21. 2016
by Elo | 5v (53c)A Review of Signal Data Science
by The_Jaded_One | 10v (15c)Help with Bayesian priors
by WikiLogicOrg | 4v (26c)New LW Meetup: Munich
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)"Is Science Broken?" is underspecified
by NancyLebovitz | 8v (11c)Inverse cryonics: one weird trick to persuade anyone to sign up for cryonics today!
by The_Jaded_One | 3v (36c)Non-Fiction Book Reviews
by SquirrelInHell | 9v (4c)Open Thread, Aug. 8 - Aug 14. 2016
by Elo | 4v (71c)Advice to new Doctors starting practice
by anandjeyahar | 1v (7c)Now is the time to eliminate mosquitoes
by James_Miller | 21v (75c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Fairness in machine learning decisions
by Stuart_Armstrong | -2v (18c)New Pascal's Mugging idea for potential solution
by kokotajlod | 2v (18c)Superintelligence and physical law
by AnthonyC | 10v (1c)Motivated Thinking
by Bound_up | 3v (7c)[link] MIRI's 2015 in review
by Kaj_Sotala | 9v (0c)Irrationality Quotes August 2016
by PhilGoetz | 5v (11c)Rationality Quotes August 2016
by bbleeker | 2v (18c)August 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 1v (29c)Open Thread, Aug. 1 - Aug 7. 2016
by Elo | 4v (81c)Clean work gets dirty with time
by Romashka | 2v (6c)Should we enable public binding precommitments?
by capybaralet | 0v (19c)[Effective Altruism] Promoting Effective Giving at Conferences via Speed Giving Games
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 3v (3c)The map of p-zombies
by turchin | 6v (12c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Open thread, Jul. 25 - Jul. 31, 2016
by MrMind | 3v (133c)A rational unfalsifyable believe
by Arielgenesis | 1v (46c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)[Link] Suffering-focused AI safety: Why “fail-safe” measures might be particularly promising
by wallowinmaya | 8v (5c)In partially observable environments, stochastic policies can be optimal
by Stuart_Armstrong | 5v (8c)Open thread, Jul. 18 - Jul. 24, 2016
by MrMind | 3v (123c)Earning money with/for work in AI safety
by rmoehn | 7v (31c)[Link] NYU conference: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (October 14-15)
by ignoranceprior | 4v (2c)Two forms of procrastination
by Viliam | 10v (13c)The map of cognitive biases, errors and obstacles affecting judgment and management of global catastrophic risks
by turchin | 3v (63c)[CORE] Concepts for Understanding the World
by SquirrelInHell | 2v (17c)New LW Meetup: Greenville NC
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)confirmation bias, thought experiment
by Douglas_Reay | 1v (1c)Wikipedia usage survey results
by riceissa | 7v (5c)Suggestion: jog instead of walk
by jennabouche | 3v (6c)Open thread, Jul. 11 - Jul. 17, 2016
by MrMind | 4v (131c)New LW Meetup: Boise ID, Bay City MI
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)[LINK] Concrete problems in AI safety
by Stuart_Armstrong | 15v (6c)Notes on Imagination and Suffering
by SquirrelInHell | 5v (17c)Open thread, Jul. 04 - Jul. 10, 2016
by MrMind | 4v (80c)The map of future models
by turchin | 5v (22c)Zombies Redacted
by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 33v (165c)New LW Meetup: Dallas
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Rationality Quotes July 2016
by bbleeker | 1v (21c)July 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 2v (30c)Link: The Economist on Paperclip Maximizers
by Anders_H | 5v (3c)The Ethics of AI and Its Effect On Us
by cameroncowan | -1v (3c)Market Failure: Sugar-free Tums
by PhilGoetz | 3v (30c)Rationality when Insulated from Evidence
by JustinMElms | 3v (60c)Meme: Valuable Vulnerability
by scarcegreengrass | 3v (24c)Open thread, June 27 - July 3, 2016
by Clarity | 3v (79c)2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Analysis: Part Three (Mental Health, Basilisk, Blogs and Media)
by ingres | 15v (13c)Powering Through vs Working Around
by lifelonglearner | 1v (7c)New LW Meetup: Bay City, MI
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Diaspora roundup thread, 23rd June 2016
by philh | 5v (12c)Are smart contracts AI-complete?
by Stuart_Armstrong | 11v (46c)Open thread, June 20 - June 26, 2016
by Elo | 6v (89c)Two kinds of Expectations, *one* of which is helpful for rational thinking
by malcolmocean | 2v (15c)Skills training for dating anxiety
by Clarity | 2v (11c)General-Purpose Questions Thread
by Sable | 4v (30c)Writing Collaboratively
by richard_reitz | 8v (15c)Crazy Ideas Thread
by James_Miller | 5v (92c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Avoiding strawmen
by casebash | 0v (13c)Secret Rationality Base in Europe
by SquirrelInHell | 2v (33c)Buying happiness
by gjm | -1v (34c)Adversity to Success
by Elo | -2v (10c)Diaspora roundup thread, 15th June 2016
by philh | 24v (13c)Revitalising Less Wrong is not a lost purpose
by casebash | 4v (37c)Attempts to Debias Hindsight Backfire!
by Gram_Stone | 7v (9c)Open thread, Jun. 13 - Jun. 19, 2016
by MrMind | 2v (66c)Revitalizing Less Wrong seems like a lost purpose, but here are some other ideas
by John_Maxwell_IV | 19v (34c)Availability Heuristic Considered Ambiguous
by Gram_Stone | 9v (6c)2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Analysis: Part Two (LessWrong Use, Successorship, Diaspora)
by ingres | 28v (12c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Counterfactual Mugging Alternative
by wafflepudding | -1v (23c)Open Thread June 6 - June 12, 2016
by Elo | 4v (126c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Rationality Quotes June 2016
by bbleeker | 2v (11c)Thoughts on hacking aromanticism?
by hg00 | 10v (37c)June 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 2v (44c)Open Thread May 30 - June 5, 2016
by Elo | 3v (95c)Cognitive Biases Affecting Self-Perception of Beauty
by Bound_up | 0v (33c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)LINK: Performing a Failure Autopsy
by fowlertm | 1v (3c)Iterated Gambles and Expected Utility Theory
by Sable | 1v (43c)The AI in Mary's room
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (58c)Open Thread May 23 - May 29, 2016
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 4v (120c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Knowledge Dump: Pomodoros
by ChristianKl | 3v (12c)How do you learn Solomonoff Induction?
by aisarka | 1v (6c)Welcome to Less Wrong! (9th thread, May 2016)
by Viliam | 4v (49c)Open Thread May 16 - May 22, 2016
by Elo | 6v (121c)Information Hazards and Community Hazards
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 1v (15c)Social effects of algorithms that accurately identify human behaviour and traits
by Stefan_Schubert | 1v (8c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Newcomb versus dust specks
by ike | -1v (104c)Improving long-run civilisational robustness
by RyanCarey | 11v (47c)Open Thread May 9 - May 15 2016
by Elo | 3v (85c)May Outreach Thread
by Gleb_Tsipursky | -2v (29c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Rationality Quotes May 2016
by bbleeker | 5v (46c)Call for information, examples, case studies and analysis: votes and shareholder resolutions v.s. divestment for social and environmental outcomes
by Clarity | -1v (33c)Collaborative Truth-Seeking
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 11v (17c)[Link] White House announces a series of workshops on AI, expresses interest in safety
by AspiringRationalist | 11v (10c)Paid research assistant position focusing on artificial intelligence and existential risk
by crmflynn | 7v (5c)My Kind of Moral Responsibility
by Gram_Stone | 3v (116c)Open Thread May 2 - May 8, 2016
by Elo | 5v (149c)May 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 1v (40c)Hedge drift and advanced motte-and-bailey
by Stefan_Schubert | 21v (7c)The 'why does it even tell me this' moment
by Romashka | 5v (3c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Is the average ethical review board ethical from an utilitarian standpoint?
by ChristianKl | 3v (23c)Sphere packing and logical uncertainty
by sanxiyn | 3v (3c)Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016
by Elo | 3v (127c)[Link] Mutual fund fees
by James_Miller | 3v (25c)My Custom Spelling Dictionary
by Gram_Stone | 3v (4c)The Validity of the Anthropic Principle
by casebash | 1v (4c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Expect to know better when you know more
by Stuart_Armstrong | 3v (6c)Roughly you
by JDR | 4v (7c)Gratitude Thread :-)
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 1v (16c)Open thread, Apr. 18 - Apr. 24, 2016
by MrMind | 2v (176c)Monthly Outreach Thread
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 0v (6c)Using humility to counteract shame
by Vika | 9v (15c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)Anthropics and Biased Models
by casebash | 4v (14c)How to provide a simple example to the requirement of falsifiability in the scientific method to a novice audience?
by Val | 5v (57c)The Sally-Anne fallacy
by philh | 27v (27c)Open Thread April 11 - April 17, 2016
by Clarity | 3v (145c)Geometric Bayesian Update
by SquirrelInHell | 12v (9c)An update on Signal Data Science (an intensive data science training program)
by JonahSinick | 5v (33c)Positivity Thread :)
by Viliam | 24v (66c)New LW Meetup: Nairobi
by FrankAdamek | 3v (0c)Monthly Bragging Thread April 2016
by Soothsilver | 3v (22c)Update to the list of apps that are useful to me
by Elo | 6v (10c)My new rationality/futurism podcast
by James_Miller | 15v (129c)Rationality Quotes April 2016
by bbleeker | 1v (58c)Talk today at CU Boulder
by fowlertm | 1v (0c)[link] Disjunctive AI Risk Scenarios
by Kaj_Sotala | 10v (13c)Turning the Technical Crank
by Error | 43v (134c)Open Thread April 4 - April 10, 2016
by Elo | 5v (211c)Fake Amnesia
by Gram_Stone | 8v (18c)Tonic Judo
by Gram_Stone | 16v (17c)April 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 3v (42c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Happy Notice Your Surprise Day!
by Vaniver | 14v (5c)Consider having sparse insides
by AnnaSalamon | 12v (24c)[Link] Peer-Reviwed Piece on Meaning and Purpose in a Non-Religious Setting
by Gleb_Tsipursky | -2v (8c)What makes buying insurance rational?
by rayalez | 3v (21c)Does Evidence Have To Be Certain?
by potato | 0v (12c)Open Thread March 28 - April 3 , 2016
by Clarity | 7v (69c)Abuse of Productivity Systems
by SquirrelInHell | 15v (57c)[Video] The Essential Strategies To Debiasing From Academic Rationality
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 1v (14c)What can we learn from Microsoft's Tay, its inflammatory tweets, and its shutdown?
by InquilineKea | 1v (61c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (1c)[LINK] Why Cryonics Makes Sense - Wait But Why
by Paul | 15v (28c)Open Thread March 21 - March 27, 2016
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 3v (160c)The increasing uselessness of Promoted
by PhilGoetz | 19v (12c)Lesswrong Potential Changes
by Elo | 17v (88c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Genetic "Nature" is cultural too
by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (39c)How It Feels to Improve My Rationality
by SquirrelInHell | 5v (50c)Conjecture on Addiction to Meta-level Solutions
by Gram_Stone | 1v (10c)Link: Evidence-Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked
by Anders_H | 17v (37c)Newsjacking for Rationality and Effective Altruism
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 15v (15c)Open thread, Mar. 14 - Mar. 20, 2016
by MrMind | 3v (212c)The Thyroid Madness : Core Argument, Evidence, Probabilities and Predictions
by johnlawrenceaspden | 10v (132c)Look for Lone Correct Contrarians
by Gram_Stone | 20v (27c)Prediction challenge: Zika and birth rates
by NancyLebovitz | 8v (5c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)True answers from AI: Summary
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (4c)Rationality Reading Group: Part V: Value Theory
by Gram_Stone | 6v (31c)AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol
by gjm | 17v (183c)Two super-intelligences (evolution and science) already exist: what could we learn from them in terms of AI's future and safety?
by turchin | 0v (3c)Cross-Cultural maps and Asch's Conformity Experiment
by Sable | 6v (16c)Purposeful Anti-Rush
by Elo | 4v (7c)Would you notice if science died?
by Douglas_Knight | 4v (40c)Many Worlds against Simulation?
by Coacher | 2v (8c)Cultivate the desire to X
by Elo | 3v (1c)Open Thread March 7 - March 13, 2016
by Elo | 4v (125c)Outreach Thread
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 6v (20c)What is the future of nootropic drugs? Why can't there be ones more effective than ones that have existed for 15+ years?
by InquilineKea | 5v (20c)Preference over preference
by Elo | 5v (3c)Rationality Quotes Thread March 2016
by elharo | 5v (44c)On Making Things
by Gram_Stone | 11v (13c)AIFoom Debate - conclusion?
by Bound_up | 11v (48c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Black box knowledge
by Elo | 2v (7c)Rationality 101 - how would you introduce a person to the rationalist concepts? What are the best topics to learn/explain first?
by rayalez | 2v (16c)Procrastination checklist
by Elo | 4v (4c)AI as a resolution to the Fermi Paradox.
by Raiden | 1v (24c)Request for advice: high school transferring
by argella42 | 7v (33c)March 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 3v (36c)The map of nanotech global catastrophic risks
by turchin | 1v (6c)I'm planning a rationalist technique-demonstrating sequel to HPMOR. I know about the Virtue of Silence. Are there any skills I should leave out?
by b_sen | 0v (0c)Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016
by Elo | 4v (285c)Goal setting journal (March 2016)
by Clarity | 3v (12c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)If there IS alien super-inteligence in our own galaxy, then what it could be like?
by Coacher | 6v (58c)Is altruistic deception really necessary? Social activism and the free market
by PhilGoetz | 3v (96c)Toy model: convergent instrumental goals
by Stuart_Armstrong | 8v (2c)If there was one element of statistical literacy that you could magically implant in every head, what would it be?
by enfascination | 3v (67c)The map of global catastrophic risks connected with biological weapons and genetic engineering
by turchin | 6v (14c)Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016
by Elo | 5v (228c)The Talos Principle
by kranalee | 2v (7c)Use unique, non-obvious terms for nuanced concepts
by malcolmocean | 18v (13c)Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia: A Hypothesis and a Proposed Experiment
by johnlawrenceaspden | 3v (36c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)[spoilers] EY's “A Girl Corrupted...?!” new story is an allegorical study of quantum immortality?
by Algernoq | 5v (23c)Posting to Main currently disabled
by Vaniver | 22v (6c)Goal completion: noise, errors, bias, prejudice, preference and complexity
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (10c)The ethics of eating meat
by necate | 6v (59c)Critique on my attempt to teach rationality
by Bound_up | 3v (12c)Should we admit it when a person/group is "better" than another person/group?
by adamzerner | 0v (64c)Open Thread Feb 16 - Feb 23, 2016
by Elo | 5v (104c)Cheerful one-liners and disjointed anecdotes
by Romashka | 5v (14c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Religious and Rational?
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 3v (86c)Require contributions in advance
by Viliam | 53v (26c)Altruistic parenting
by Clarity | 1v (22c)Lesswrong Survey - invitation for suggestions
by Elo | 10v (29c)Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016
by Elo | 4v (215c)Conveying rational thinking about long-term goals to youth and young adults
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 8v (9c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (1c)A Rationalist Guide to OkCupid
by Jacobian | 25v (66c)Value learners & wireheading
by Manfred | 5v (3c)Upcoming LW Changes
by Vaniver | 46v (105c)The AI That Pretends To Be Human
by Houshalter | 1v (69c)February 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 3v (46c)Open thread, Feb. 01 - Feb. 07, 2016
by MrMind | 3v (177c)Identifying bias. A Bayesian analysis of suspicious agreement between beliefs and values.
by Stefan_Schubert | 7v (26c)[moderator action] The_Lion and The_Lion2 are banned
by Viliam_Bur | 51v (40c)Yoshua Bengio on AI progress, hype and risks
by V_V | 7v (6c)Positive utility in an infinite universe
by casebash | 1v (12c)Clearing An Overgrown Garden
by Anders_H | 9v (14c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)The Number Choosing Game: Against the existence of perfect theoretical rationality
by casebash | -1v (151c)Studying Your Native Language
by Crux | 4v (7c)What's wrong with this picture?
by CronoDAS | 15v (80c)The case for value learning
by leplen | 4v (7c)AI Fiction - Crystal Society
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 1v (21c)Learning Mathematics in Context
by Crux | 5v (35c)The Charity Impact Calculator
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 6v (15c)Open thread, Jan. 25 - Jan. 31, 2016
by username2 | 3v (169c)The map of quantum (big world) immortality
by turchin | 2v (75c)Study partner matching thread
by AspiringRationalist | 5v (15c)Beware surprising and suspicious convergence
by Thrasymachus | 14v (6c)Map:Territory::Uncertainty::Randomness – but that doesn’t matter, value of information does.
by Davidmanheim | 6v (21c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)Goal completion: the rocket equations
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (13c)Could a digital intelligence be bad at math?
by leplen | 3v (21c)Anxiety and Rationality
by helldalgo | 32v (31c)How did my baby die and what is the probability that my next one will?
by deprimita_patro | 22v (23c)Open thread, Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2016
by MrMind | 4v (201c)To contribute to AI safety, consider doing AI research
by Vika | 26v (39c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 3v (0c)[link] "The Happiness Code" - New York Times on CFAR
by Kaj_Sotala | 13v (12c)Welcome to LessWrong (January 2016)
by Clarity | 7v (15c)Open Thread, January 11-17, 2016
by username2 | 3v (180c)Instrumental behaviour: Inbox zero - A guide
by Elo | 4v (12c)Gamified psychiatry
by Clarity | -1v (12c)[Link] Lifehack article promoting rationality-themed ideas, namely long-term orientation, mere-exposure effect, consider-the-alternative, and agency
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 9v (5c)Variations on the Sleeping Beauty
by casebash | 0v (6c)Are we failing the ideological Turing test in the case of ISIS? (a crazy ideas thread)
by Val | -1v (108c)[LINK] OpenAI doing an AMA today
by Vika | 4v (3c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Consciousness and Sleep
by casebash | 8v (35c)Your transhuman copy is of questionable value to your meat self.
by Usul | 12v (140c)[Stub] The problem with Chesterton's Fence
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (49c)Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016
by polymathwannabe | 5v (430c)A note about calibration of confidence
by jbay | 12v (35c)Polling Thread January 2016
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 4v (17c)January 2016 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 5v (48c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)MIRIx Israel, Meeting summary
by JoshuaFox | 6v (1c)[LINK] The Top A.I. Breakthroughs of 2015
by Vika | 10v (1c)Why You Should Be Public About Your Good Deeds
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 11v (31c)What EAO has been doing, what it is planning to do, and why donating to EAO is a good idea
by TodesBrot | 9v (17c)has anyone actually gotten smarter, in the past few years, by studying rationality?
by sboo | 7v (31c)Open Thread, Dec. 28 - Jan. 3, 2016
by Clarity | 10v (144c)Sports
by adamzerner | 12v (25c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Voiceofra is banned
by NancyLebovitz | 21v (222c)Giving What We Can pledge campaign 2015
by Smaug123 | 6v (1c)Survey: What's the most negative*plausible cryonics-works story that you know?
by Academian | 5v (72c)Stupid Questions, 2nd half of December
by Bound_up | 2v (186c)Support Promoting Effective Giving
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 9v (0c)Deadly sins of software estimation
by NancyLebovitz | 11v (2c)In favour of total utilitarianism over average
by casebash | 0v (15c)In defense of philosophy
by casebash | 1v (14c)Open thread, Dec. 21 - Dec. 27, 2015
by MrMind | 2v (230c)Modal Chicken
by Gram_Stone | 3v (7c)PSA: even if you don't usually read Main, there have been several worthwhile posts there recently
by Kaj_Sotala | 13v (3c)New LW Meetup: Baltimore
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)[LINK] "The current state of machine intelligence"
by gjm | 3v (3c)Effective Giving vs. Effective Altruism
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 9v (0c)[Link] Video of a presentation by Hal Arkes, one of the top world experts in debiasing, on dealing with the hindsight bias and overconfidence
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 1v (1c)Open thread, Dec. 14 - Dec. 20, 2015
by MrMind | 4v (90c)State of the Solstice (NYC Event upcoming)
by Raemon | 4v (1c)Communicating concepts in value learning
by Manfred | 3v (5c)This year's biggest scientific achievements
by Elo | 9v (29c)[Link] Introducing OpenAI
by Baughn | 23v (48c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Computable Universal Prior
by potato | 0v (5c)List of techniques to help you remember names
by Elo | 8v (14c)NIPS 2015
by Dr_Manhattan | 7v (4c)Maximizing Donations to Effective Charities
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 7v (29c)Open thread, December 7-13, 2015
by polymathwannabe | 3v (223c)Engineering Religion
by KevinGrant | 2v (32c)Mark Zuckerberg plans to give away 99% of his facebook wealth over his lifetime
by ChristianKl | 5v (50c)timeless quantum immortality
by Algernoq | 2v (52c)My research priorities for AI control
by paulfchristiano | 17v (3c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 2v (2c)Starting University Advice Repository
by Bryan-san | 12v (93c)Making My Peace with Belief
by OrphanWilde | 14v (42c)Dark Arts: Defense in Reputational Warfare
by OrphanWilde | 1v (69c)New Leverhulme Centre on the Future of AI (developed at CSER with spokes led by Bostrom, Russell, Shanahan)
by Sean_o_h | 17v (1c)Stupid Questions, December 2015
by polymathwannabe | 5v (138c)Group Rationality Diary, Dec. 1-13, 2015
by polymathwannabe | 3v (16c)Crazy Ideas Thread, December 2015
by polymathwannabe | 3v (39c)Bragging thread, December 2015
by polymathwannabe | 3v (25c)December 2015 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 4v (29c)Take the EA survey, help the EA movement grow and potentially win $250 to your favorite charity
by peter_hurford | 5v (1c)Weirdness at the wiki
by NancyLebovitz | 7v (82c)[link] Pedro Domingos: "The Master Algorithm"
by GMHowe | 2v (0c)Open thread, Nov. 30 - Dec. 06, 2015
by MrMind | 3v (104c)The value of ambiguous speech
by KevinGrant | 4v (37c)Linguistic mechanisms for less wrong cognition
by KevinGrant | 7v (130c)Mind uploading from the outside in
by Alexandros | 6v (10c)[link] Desiderata for a model of human values
by Kaj_Sotala | 3v (1c)The Growth of My Pessimism: Transhumanism, Immortalism, Effective Altruism.
by diegocaleiro | 15v (74c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (5c)Omega's Idiot Brother, Epsilon
by OrphanWilde | 3v (7c)Creating lists
by casebash | 2v (5c)Mark Manson and Rationality
by casebash | 4v (18c)The Winding Path
by OrphanWilde | 6v (10c)Open thread, Nov. 23 - Nov. 29, 2015
by MrMind | 5v (257c)[Link] Less Wrong Wiki article with very long summary of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 6v (13c)A map: Causal structure of a global catastrophe
by turchin | 4v (2c)New LW Meetup: Cambridge UK
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)Goal setting journal (November)
by Clarity | 2v (23c)Stupid Questions November 2015
by Tem42 | 4v (64c)[Link] Audio recording of Stephen Wolfram discussing AI and the Singularity
by RaelwayScot | 1v (3c)Marketing Rationality
by Viliam | 28v (220c)Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015
by MrMind | 7v (185c)[Link] Lifehack Article Promoting LessWrong, Rationality Dojo, and Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 9v (71c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Optimizing Rationality T-shirts
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 3v (18c)Post-doctoral Fellowships at METRICS
by Anders_H | 12v (0c)Meetup: Cambridge UK
by Salokin | 2v (0c)[Link] Mainstreaming Tell Culture
by Gleb_Tsipursky | -1v (18c)Utility, probability and false beliefs
by Stuart_Armstrong | 1v (2c)“Be A Superdonor!”: Promoting Effective Altruism by Appealing to the Heart
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 8v (82c)Open thread, Nov. 09 - Nov. 15, 2015
by MrMind | 3v (175c)How do you choose areas of scientific research?
by FrameBenignly | 5v (22c)New LW Meetup: Zurich
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)Updating on hypotheticals
by casebash | 4v (21c)LINK: An example of the Pink Flamingo, the obvious-yet-overlooked cousin of the Black Swan
by polymathwannabe | 3v (75c)Using the Copernican mediocrity principle to estimate the timing of AI arrival
by turchin | 2v (17c)Newcomb, Bostrom, Calvin: Credence and the strange path to a finite afterlife
by crmflynn | 7v (84c)Solstice 2015: What Memes May Come? (Part I)
by Raemon | 14v (5c)Open thread, Nov. 02 - Nov. 08, 2015
by MrMind | 4v (194c)November 2015 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 3v (36c)AI origin question
by hairyfigment | 1v (18c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)AI utility-based correlation
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (0c)Is there a recursive self-improvement hierarchy?
by PhilGoetz | 7v (10c)What we could learn from the frequency of near-misses in the field of global risks (Happy Bassett-Bordne day!)
by turchin | 8v (9c)The Ultimate Testing Grounds
by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (14c)Proposal for increasing instrumental rationality value of the LessWrong community
by harcisis | 19v (7c)Open thread, Oct. 26 - Nov. 01, 2015
by MrMind | 4v (106c)The Triumph of Humanity Chart
by Dias | 23v (77c)Crazy Global Warming Solution Ideas
by Bound_up | -2v (41c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)Superintelligence and wireheading
by Stuart_Armstrong | 5v (3c)ClearerThinking's Fact-Checking 2.0
by Stefan_Schubert | 23v (40c)The mystery of Brahms
by PhilGoetz | 5v (65c)[Link]: KIC 8462852, aka WTF star, "the most mysterious star in our galaxy", ETI candidate, etc.
by jacob_cannell | 5v (43c)The trouble with Bayes (draft)
by snarles | 10v (58c)Open thread, Oct. 19 - Oct. 25, 2015
by MrMind | 3v (198c)Life Advice Repository
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 9v (13c)Survey Articles: A justification
by casebash | 6v (0c)A Map of Currently Available Life Extension Methods
by turchin | 11v (39c)New LW Meetup: Turku
by FrankAdamek | 3v (0c)We’ll write you a will for free if you leave a gift to GiveWell’s top charities
by peter_hurford | 4v (6c)Pascal's Mugging, Finite or Unbounded Resources?
by Irgy | -1v (26c)A very long list of sleep maintenance suggestions
by Elo | 10v (23c)Vegetarianism Ideological Turing Test Results
by Raelifin | 21v (26c)[Link] Max Tegmark and Nick Bostrom Speak About AI Risk at UN International Security Event
by Gram_Stone | 10v (10c)Stupid questions thread, October 2015
by philh | 3v (223c)New positions and recent hires at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (Cambridge, UK)
by Sean_o_h | 9v (3c)Open thread, Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 2015
by MrMind | 5v (250c)General buying considerations?
by Elo | 5v (20c)Unbounded linear utility functions?
by snarles | -1v (3c)Simulations Map: what is the most probable type of the simulation in which we live?
by turchin | 5v (46c)Conflicting advice on altruism
by leplen | 4v (3c)Aumann Agreement Game
by abramdemski | 9v (9c)Philosophical schools are approaches not positions
by casebash | 2v (41c)Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 3v (44c)[Link] Stephen Hawking AMA answers
by AspiringRationalist | 7v (14c)Fiction Considered Harmful
by abramdemski | 5v (80c)Rationality Reading Group: Part K: Letting Go
by Gram_Stone | 5v (1c)Group Rationality Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015
by polymathwannabe | 4v (26c)Crazy Ideas Thread - October 2015
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 7v (114c)A few misconceptions surrounding Roko's basilisk
by RobbBB | 39v (125c)Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015
by MrMind | 7v (346c)[Link] Tetlock on the power of precise predictions to counter political polarization
by Stefan_Schubert | 6v (7c)Experiment: Changing minds vs. preaching to the choir
by cleonid | 13v (14c)Digital Immortality Map: How to collect enough information about yourself for future resurrection by AI
by turchin | 6v (29c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 4v (1c)Donna Capsella and the four applicants, pt.1
by Romashka | 0v (4c)Two Growth Curves
by AnnaSalamon | 35v (11c)October 2015 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 5v (47c)Polling Thread - Tutorial
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 5v (5c)The Trolley Problem and Reversibility
by casebash | 7v (27c)Ultimatums in the Territory
by malcolmocean | 12v (23c)Examples of growth mindset or practice in fiction
by Swimmer963 | 12v (32c)Open thread, Sep. 28 - Oct. 4, 2015
by MrMind | 3v (198c)Dry Ice Cryonics- Preliminary Thoughts
by Fluttershy | 8v (9c)Instrumental Rationality Questions Thread
by AspiringRationalist | 6v (51c)Hypothetical situations are not meant to exist
by casebash | 1v (22c)Find someone to talk to thread
by hg00 | 22v (21c)[Link] 2015 modafinil user survey
by gwern | 9v (4c)Happy Petrov Day
by Eneasz | 9v (25c)[Link] Review of "Doing Good Better"
by fortyeridania | 0v (13c)New LW Meetup: Lund
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Subjective vs. normative offensiveness
by casebash | 2v (86c)What is your rationalist backstory?
by adamzerner | 7v (38c)Notes on Actually Trying
by AspiringRationalist | 13v (9c)Some thoughts on meta-probabilties
by iarwain1 | 0v (15c)Open thread, Sep. 21 - Sep. 27, 2015
by MrMind | 3v (133c)Ideas for rationality slogans?
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 6v (56c)Kant's Multiplication
by Vamair0 | 7v (6c)Ask and ye shall be answered
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (3c)Monty Hall Sleeping Beauty
by PhilGoetz | 1v (17c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)The subagent problem is really hard
by Stuart_Armstrong | 5v (9c)A toy model of the control problem
by Stuart_Armstrong | 19v (24c)Summoning the Least Powerful Genie
by Houshalter | -1v (48c)[Link] Marek Rosa: Announcing GoodAI
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 6v (14c)Doomsday Argument Map
by turchin | 6v (32c)Biased AI heuistics
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (6c)Open thread, Sep. 14 - Sep. 20, 2015
by MrMind | 3v (192c)The Library of Scott Alexandria
by RobbBB | 45v (26c)Group Rationality Diary, September 13-26
by Dahlen | 2v (1c)Useful Wiki and special pages
by ScottL | 7v (0c)The Heuristic About Representativeness Heuristic
by BT_Uytya | 2v (4c)How To Win The AI Box Experiment (Sometimes)
by pinkgothic | 28v (21c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)What Exactly Do We Mean By "Rationality"?
by ScottL | 4v (12c)Film about Stanislav Petrov
by matheist | 14v (1c)Mean of quantiles
by Stuart_Armstrong | 1v (21c)Flowsheet Logic and Notecard Logic
by moridinamael | 25v (28c)How the virtual AI controls itself
by Stuart_Armstrong | 1v (0c)Chatbots or set answers, not WBEs
by Stuart_Armstrong | 5v (9c)Median utility rather than mean?
by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (86c)Need help with organizing philosophy event
by LizzardWizzard | 3v (0c)[LINK] Waitbutwhy article on the history and future of space exploration, SpaceX and more
by LizzardWizzard | 3v (26c)Feedback on popularizing rationality-informed strategies for making major financial decisions
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 3v (2c)Reading group for Calculus by Spivak
by AlexZ | 4v (1c)Open thread 7th september - 13th september
by Elo | 4v (146c)What is the best way to develop a strong sense of having something to protect
by ChristianKl | 6v (16c)Make your bad habits the villains
by AshwinV | 1v (17c)making notes - an instrumental rationality process.
by Elo | 14v (20c)Rudimentary Categorization of Less Wrong Topics
by ScottL | 19v (5c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Lesswrong real time chat
by Elo | 18v (14c)Actually existing prediction markets?
by Douglas_Knight | 8v (19c)Stupid Questions September 2015
by polymathwannabe | 4v (174c)Bragging thread September 2015
by polymathwannabe | 4v (32c)Rough utility estimates and clarifying questions
by Romashka | 2v (1c)Should there be more people on the leaderboard?
by casebash | 2v (27c)September 2015 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 4v (55c)Typical Sneer Fallacy
by calef | 10v (44c)Meta post: Did something go wrong?
by Elo | 3v (24c)An accidental experiment in location memory
by PhilGoetz | 9v (19c)My future posts; a table of contents.
by Elo | 22v (12c)Open Thread August 31 - September 6
by Elo | 5v (326c)Group Rationality Diary, August 30 - September 12
by Dahlen | 3v (14c)Calling references: Rational or irrational?
by PhilGoetz | 7v (15c)New LW Meetup: Rochester NY
by FrankAdamek | 4v (1c)Is my brain a utility minimizer? Or, the mechanics of labeling things as "work" vs. "fun"
by contravariant | 10v (16c)Personal story about benefits of Rationality Dojo and shutting up and multiplying
by Gleb_Tsipursky | 7v (27c)Sensation & Perception
by ScottL | 1v (15c)Is semiotics bullshit?
by PhilGoetz | 13v (45c)Why people want to die
by PhilGoetz | 49v (174c)Manhood of Humanity
by Viliam | 10v (6c)The virtual AI within its virtual world
by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (34c)AI, cure this fake person's fake cancer!
by Stuart_Armstrong | 10v (18c)Open Thread - Aug 24 - Aug 30
by Elo | 7v (318c)List of common human goals
by Elo | 13v (24c)Rationality Compendium: Principle 1 - A rational agent, given its capabilities and the situation it is in, is one that thinks and acts optimally
by ScottL | 7v (28c)Rationality Compendium
by ScottL | 10v (5c)Self-confidence and status
by asd | 4v (10c)Instrumental Rationality Questions Thread
by AspiringRationalist | 14v (92c)Robert Aumann on Judaism
by iarwain1 | 2v (60c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)Glossary of Futurology
by mind_bomber | 3v (7c)Unlearning shoddy thinking
by malcolmocean | 6v (4c)How to fix academia?
by passive_fist | 9v (33c)[Link] First almost fully-formed human [foetus] brain grown in lab, researchers claim
by ESRogs | 7v (40c)Truth seeking as an optimization process
by ScottL | 6v (0c)How to learn a new area X that you have no idea about.
by Elo | 12v (39c)Fragile Universe Hypothesis and the Continual Anthropic Principle - How crazy am I?
by PeterCoin | 6v (32c)Does random reward evoke stronger habits?
by Bound_up | 1v (17c)Predict - "Log your predictions" app
by Gust | 13v (12c)Open thread, Aug. 17 - Aug. 23, 2015
by MrMind | 3v (106c)Rational approach to finding life partners
by c_edwards | 1v (127c)Yvain's most important articles
by casebash | 21v (29c)Soylent has been found to contain lead (12-25x) and cadmium (≥4x) in greater concentrations than California's 'safe harbor' levels
by Transfuturist | 9v (40c)Time-Binding
by Viliam | 17v (18c)When there are too few people to donate money to
by Romashka | 1v (18c)New LW Meetup: Turku
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Mental Calibration for Bayesian Updates?
by MattG | 1v (5c)Ideas on growth of the community
by Lu93 | 3v (85c)[LINK] The Bayesian Second Law of Thermodynamics
by shminux | 8v (16c)Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015
by polymathwannabe | 7v (240c)Versions of AIXI can be arbitrarily stupid
by Stuart_Armstrong | 15v (59c)Open thread, Aug. 10 - Aug. 16, 2015
by MrMind | 5v (283c)Some concepts are like Newton's Gravity, others are like... Luminiferous Aether?
by Locaha | 2v (10c)Vegetarianism Ideological Turing Test!
by Raelifin | 3v (20c)Peer-to-peer "knowledge exchanges"
by snarles | 13v (30c)Tell me what hat to buy
by DataPacRat | 4v (26c)Scientific studies and trust
by NancyLebovitz | 5v (9c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)Gatekeeper variation
by JoshuaFox | 4v (8c)[Link] Game Theory YouTube Videos
by James_Miller | 16v (10c)Is simplicity truth indicative?
by 27chaos | 4v (45c)We really need a "cryonics sales pitch" article.
by CronoDAS | 10v (99c)Integral vs differential ethics, continued
by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (18c)Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015
by bbleeker | 6v (222c)Open thread, Aug. 03 - Aug. 09, 2015
by MrMind | 5v (177c)On stopping rules
by Anders_H | 5v (9c)Ideological Turing Test Domains
by Raelifin | 5v (18c)Stupid Questions August 2015
by Grothor | 7v (129c)Bragging thread August 2015
by philh | 3v (43c)August 2015 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 6v (65c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)How to win the World Food Prize
by Clarity | 5v (30c)Wear a Helmet While Driving a Car
by James_Miller | 47v (116c)The horrifying importance of domain knowledge
by NancyLebovitz | 15v (236c)Magnetic rings (the most mediocre superpower) A review.
by Elo | 26v (33c)State-Space of Background Assumptions
by algekalipso | 10v (23c)Immortality Roadmap
by turchin | 9v (14c)The Dice Room, Human Extinction, and Consistency of Bayesian Probability Theory
by ksvanhorn | 2v (14c)Open Thread, Jul. 27 - Aug 02, 2015
by MrMind | 5v (220c)3 classifications of thinking, and a problem.
by Elo | 0v (11c)Astronomy, Astrobiology, & The Fermi Paradox I: Introductions, and Space & Time
by CellBioGuy | 42v (22c)MIRI Fundraiser: Why now matters
by So8res | 28v (3c)Test Driven Thinking
by adamzerner | 3v (26c)New LW Meetups: Indianapolis, Kyiv
by FrankAdamek | 2v (1c)Steelmaning AI risk critiques
by Stuart_Armstrong | 26v (98c)(Rational) website design and cognitive aesthetics generally- why no uptake?
by TimothyScriven | 1v (19c)Mathematics for AIXI and Gödel machine
by Faustus2 | 0v (6c)Oracle AI: Human beliefs vs human values
by Stuart_Armstrong | 2v (14c)How to grow faster
by BayesianMind | 10v (9c)AGI Safety Solutions Map
by turchin | 10v (7c)Interesting things to do during a gap year after getting undergraduate degree
by ChaosMote | 3v (11c)LessWrong Diplomacy Game 2015
by Sherincall | 6v (27c)Should you write longer comments? (Statistical analysis of the relationship between comment length and ratings)
by cleonid | 11v (47c)Open Thread, Jul. 20 - Jul. 26, 2015
by MrMind | 4v (202c)Thinking like a Scientist
by FrameBenignly | 5v (25c)LessWrong Hamburg Meetup July 2015 Summary
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 7v (2c)List of Fully General Counterarguments
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 9v (42c)I have just donated $10,000 to the Immortality Bus, which was the most rational decision of my life
by turchin | 0v (79c)New LW Meetup: Kyiv, New Hampshire
by FrankAdamek | 4v (0c)AI: requirements for pernicious policies
by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (3c)Scope sensitivity?
by AnthonyC | 1v (3c)Examples of AI's behaving badly
by Stuart_Armstrong | 25v (35c)The Just-Be-Reasonable Predicament
by Satoshi_Nakamoto | 5v (24c)Philosophy professors fail on basic philosophy problems
by shminux | 16v (107c)Recommended Reading for Evolution?
by Sable | 3v (11c)Biases and Fallacies Game Cards
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 7v (4c)Bragging Thread July 2015
by Viliam | 4v (32c)The AI, the best human advisor
by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (15c)Open Thread, Jul. 13 - Jul. 19, 2015
by MrMind | 5v (297c)Entrepreneurial autopsies
by Clarity | 7v (20c)The Waker - new mode of existence
by Jan_Rzymkowski | 3v (15c)Inaugral bump thread (12th July to 19th July)
by Clarity | 5v (6c)Moral AI: Options
by Manfred | 9v (6c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)A Map: AGI Failures Modes and Levels
by turchin | 6v (3c)The Consequences of Dust Theory.
by Eitan_Zohar | -2v (66c)Beware the Nihilistic Failure Mode
by Gram_Stone | 6v (24c)Effective Altruism from XYZ perspective
by Clarity | 4v (77c)The Person As Input
by Eneasz | 9v (4c)Crazy Ideas Thread
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 22v (344c)The fairness of the Sleeping Beauty
by MrMind | 0v (2c)Grue, Bleen, and natural categories
by Stuart_Armstrong | 3v (0c)Zooming your mind in and out
by John_Maxwell_IV | 8v (6c)Green Emeralds, Grue Diamonds
by Stuart_Armstrong | 8v (20c)A question and a tail
by Romashka | 2v (2c)Open Thread, Jul. 6 - Jul. 12, 2015
by MrMind | 5v (142c)There is no such thing as strength: a parody
by ZoltanBerrigomo | 25v (70c)The Pre-Historical Fallacy
by Tem42 | 13v (30c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 3v (0c)A Roadmap: How to Survive the End of the Universe
by turchin | 6v (27c)July 2015 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 5v (46c)Analogical Reasoning and Creativity
by jacob_cannell | 25v (15c)Stupid Questions July 2015
by Gondolinian | 6v (122c)Directly advertising existential risk
by Arbitrary | 4v (11c)Rational Discussion of Controversial Topics
by cleonid | 9v (10c)Solving sleep: just a toe-dipping
by Capla | 37v (36c)Effective Altruism vs Missionaries? Advice Requested from a Newly-Built Crowdfunding Platform.
by lululu | 3v (10c)Selecting vs. grooming
by DeVliegendeHollander | 5v (19c)Top 9+2 myths about AI risk
by Stuart_Armstrong | 44v (45c)Open Thread, Jun. 29 - Jul. 5, 2015
by Gondolinian | 5v (210c)Is this evidence for the Simulation hypothesis?
by Eitan_Zohar | 1v (11c)Goal setting journal (GSJ) - 28/06/15 -> 05/07/15
by Clarity | 4v (3c)New LW Meetups: Maine, San Antonio
by FrankAdamek | 2v (1c)[link] Essay on AI Safety
by jsteinhardt | 12v (11c)GiveWell event for SF Bay Area EAs
by Benquo | 3v (1c)Cryonics: peace of mind vs. immortality
by oge | 3v (31c)My recent thoughts on consciousness
by AlexLundborg | 0v (64c)A map: Typology of human extinction risks
by turchin | 9v (6c)Min/max goal factoring and belief mapping exercise
by Clarity | -1v (11c)Two Zendo-inspired games
by StephenBarnes | 17v (6c)Seeking geeks interested in bioinformatics
by bokov | 17v (13c)Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015
by Gondolinian | 6v (203c)High energy ethics and general moral relativity
by maxikov | 8v (15c)New LW Meetup: São Paulo
by FrankAdamek | 5v (0c)In praise of gullibility?
by ahbwramc | 23v (106c)Michigan Meetup Feedback and Planning
by Zubon | 7v (3c)New Meetup in New Hampshire
by NancyLebovitz | 6v (0c)Effective altruism and political power
by adamzerner | 2v (50c)Pattern-botching: when you forget you understand
by malcolmocean | 31v (18c)Theories of Regret
by SilentCal | 6v (4c)[Link] Robots Program People
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 2v (14c)Alien neuropunk slaver civilizations
by D_Malik | 10v (18c)Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015
by Gondolinian | 5v (302c)European Community Weekend 2015 Impressions Thread
by Gunnar_Zarncke | 19v (17c)Surprising examples of non-human optimization
by Jan_Rzymkowski | 19v (9c)[Link] Word-vector based DL system achieves human parity in verbal IQ tests
by jacob_cannell | 8v (8c)Seeking advice: Writing skills and workspaces
by DataPacRat | 3v (15c)Regular Lesswronger's interviews
by Elo | 3v (12c)Philosophical differences
by ahbwramc | 18v (28c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)Whole genome sequencing vs SNP genotyping
by harcisis | 5v (9c)A survey of the top posters on lesswrong
by Elo | 12v (38c)What do you do with a surprise journal?
by MaximumLiberty | 4v (3c)Short Story: Quarantine
by Dias | 18v (9c)When does heritable low fitness need to be explained?
by DanArmak | 15v (146c)How much do we know about creativity?
by NancyLebovitz | 11v (22c)Lesswrong, Effective Altruism Forum and Slate Star Codex: Harm Reduction
by diegocaleiro | 13v (150c)Conceptual Specialization of Labor Enables Precision
by Vaniver | 10v (8c)Open Thread, Jun. 8 - Jun. 14, 2015
by Gondolinian | 4v (153c)Reason Poetry: f(me.0)
by Philosophist | -1v (8c)Taking Effective Altruism Seriously
by Salemicus | 2v (122c)Agency is bugs and uncertainty
by shminux | 10v (29c)Weekly LW Meetups
by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)Are conferences an inefficient/terrible discussion forum (in addition to academic papers)?
by InquilineKea | 4v (20c)Perceptual Entropy and Frozen Estimates
by Davidmanheim | 10v (20c)In Defense of the Fundamental Attribution Error
by OrphanWilde | 9v (28c)An Oracle standard trick
by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (33c)Measuring open-mindedness
by cleonid | 10v (23c)Are consequentialism and deontology not even wrong?
by Kaj_Sotala | 15v (57c)June 2015 Media Thread
by ArisKatsaris | 5v (45c)Roadmap: Plan of Action to Prevent Human Extinction Risks
by turchin | 13v (88c)Open Thread, Jun. 1 - Jun. 7, 2015
by Gondolinian | 3v (203c)How do humans assign utilities to world states?
by Dorikka | 2v (11c)Group rationality diary, May 24th - June 13th
by Prismattic | 5v (10c)Stupid Questions June 2015
by Gondolinian | 5v (195c)View more: Next
= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d){kind=logo}